As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflected on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by the ...

However, our current geopolitical scenario makes it all the more important to remember the enormous significance of the ...

The historian and archivist is a specialist in the plundering of possessions from French Jews. Here, she focuses on the pianos seized by the Nazis during the Occupation. Nearly 8,000 of these ...

General Dwight Eisenhower wrote a cable informing his superiors, “the mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, May ...

and it boosted morale and stalled the French occupation of Mexico. In Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is a minor holiday, observed more in the towns surrounding Puebla, which was the site of the battle.

MacGregor then went to Paris to get the French to buy into his fake country ... argument (and uses it to wrongly justify Germany’s invasion of surrounding countries) by highlighting the ...